with a tiny little hop and lots of hope...

i hope your easter weekend is filled with all the joy and love 

you've ever imagined possible

all about the kids.....

and 

off they went 

on what turned out to be a fantastic sunny spring day

 my hubby and my brother-in-law hid the eggs

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some of them were in broad daylight

 some of them weren't

 there were special spotted eggs in which the kids could only get one of and they weren't supposed to look inside them until the very end. T you are so busted.

 i think my sister's chickens heard the word eggs and got a bit nervous

 toby actually got in on the action and found an egg underneath a rock before the kids did

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for linner {that's lunch and dinner in case you didn't you know} we had ham and mashed potatoes and sweet potatoes and cheesy broccoli with french fried onions and grape salad and deviled eggs and home baked bread and and and....shoot, i know i'm forgetting something. let's just say we ate really well like we always do. for dessert we literally inhaled my sister's frosted cut out cookies that are out of this world.

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like i knew there would be, a loud and outrageous ping pong tournament took place. my hubby kicked butt. there were also games of pool, trampoline jumping and flipping, a bit of stick ball and frisbee throwing and even some dancing.

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it was pretty much a perfect easter

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and

now i have to share what was on the front of an easter card my sister had

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"susie, where did you hide the easter eggs at?"

"mary, how many time have i told you not to end a sentence with a preposition?"

"susie, where did you hide the easter eggs at bitch?"

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how was your easter

?

a little of this....

a little of that

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this lamb, or is it a sheep, is a photo i took last year

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this year i'm turning it into a greeting card

i found this on a tumblr site i love

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personally

i think it should be blown up and made into a canvas

and

hung in all of our homes

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i have had easter at my house the past four years, but this year my little sister who hosts everything is having it and i am grateful for that. you see, when our kids moved out, everything in our finished basement went with them and now we have nothing

left to entertain her kids or mine.

we just recently gave to my sister the only thing left behind. the ping pong table. and i know without question, after we are stuffed full of ham and potatoes, there will be a knock down drag out ping pong tournament and i will place my bet now

that my hubby will whoop everyone's butt. he always does.

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here's "hopping" you all have an amazing easter weekend

{get it...hopping instead of hoping}

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now i'm off to fill 72 eggs with goodies

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wow

that's a job i pretty much love

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